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Sigma Vol. XXXI, No. 39, December 13, 2002
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CALENDAR
**SOE Holiday Party
Date: Thursday, December 19
Time: Noon
Location: Tribute Room and Student Lounge
Please RSVP by Noon, Monday, December 16: lstoian at umich.edu
**Images of the Possible
"Images of Good Practice in Education"
Speakers: Terry Blackhawk, Toby Kahn-Loftus and Elizabeth Moje
Date: Tuesday, January 7
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Schorling Auditorium
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Index
1. LARSEN-FREEMAN KEYNOTE SPEAKER
2. SOE PROFESSOR EMERITA PRESENTS KEYNOTE ADDRESS
3. WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEE
4. ORAL DEFENSE TIME CHANGE
5. DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
6. SOE HOLIDAY HELPING CAMPAIGN
7. IRIS WINTER BREAK HOURS
8. WIRELESS PROJECT REMINDER
9. JOB AVAILABILITY INFORMATION
10. INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL WARNING
11. NEWS FROM ITCS
12. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES
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1. LARSEN-FREEMAN KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Diane Larsen-Freeman delivered the keynote address at the Korean Association of Applied Linguistics on December 7 in Seoul.
2. SOE PROFESSOR EMERITA PRESENTS KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Joan S. Stark, Dean and Professor Emerita of Education, presented a keynote address entitled "College Curriculum: Its Design and Leadership at the Society for Research into Higher Education" at the University of Glasglow, Scotland on December 11.
3. WELCOME NEW EMPLOYEE
Danielle (Dani) Smith has joined the Dean's Office as Senior Executive Secretary. She can be reached at 647-1637, drsmith at umich.edu or in 1110 SEB.
4. ORAL DEFENSE TIME CHANGE
Candidate: Tim Boerst
Date: Wednesday, December 18
Time: 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Brownlee Room, 2327 SEB
Chair: Prof. Magdalene Lampert
Dissertation Title: "Deliberate Professional Development Communities as Sites for Teacher Learning: The Teacher Reflection Group"
5. DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Patricia Ann Jessup
Associate Professor Sally Lubeck (Chair)
Assistant Professor Janet Finn (Cognate: Anthropology)
Associate Professor Pamela Moss
Professor Annemarie Palincsar
Professor C. Addison Stone III
"Children with Disabilities in Head Start: The Case of the Crestview Head Start Program"
6. SOE HOLIDAY HELPING CAMPAIGN
The Staff Advisory Council is sponsoring a school-wide campaign to benefit those people who are truly in need. Our campaign will help both SOS Community Services of Ypsilanti (http://comnet.org/local/orgs/sos) and the Shelter Association of Washtenaw County (http://www.annarborshelter.org) both of which have given us lists of items. Complete information about the campaign, which runs Monday, December 16 - Thursday, December 19, is available online at http://www.soe.umich.edu/newsevents/helping.pdf.
7. IRIS WINTER BREAK HOURS
Monday - Thursday, December 16 - 19, 8:00 am - 10:00 pm
Friday, December 20, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Saturday, December 21 - Wednesday, January 1, CLOSED
Thursday - Friday, January 2 - 3, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Saturday - Sunday, January 4 - 5, CLOSED
Monday, January 6, resume regular hours
Tech Services and IRIS will have staff available during business hours on Monday and Tuesday, December 23 and 24. Call 764-5427 or email edu.net for assistance on those days.
8. WIRELESS PROJECT REMINDER
Tech Services will be performing a wireless site survey on Friday, December 20, Monday, December 23, and if necessary Thursday, January 2 and Friday, January 3. Please be aware that your office space may be entered and the SEB Wireless Network will be unavailable during the project. All wireless access points, including WAPs must be taken offline during the winter break. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Tech Services at edu.net at umich.edu.
9. JOB AVAILABILITY INFORMATION
Stop by the SOE Office of Student Services, room 1033, if you will be graduating soon or are just looking for work while in school. OSS maintains a book of job postings for various positions from tutoring for current students to teaching and administrative positions for teacher certification graduates. The majority of the positions are for elementary and secondary teachers.
10. INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL WARNING
The U-M International Travel Oversight Committee has issued a memo regarding a US State Department Warning for persons traveling to Lebanon, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and Venezuela. Complete information about the travel advisory is available on the web at http://www.umich.edu/~icenter/overseas/travel.
11. NEWS FROM ITCS
**New Blue Disc for Mac OS X 10.2 Users
The new Blue Disc CD-ROM contains Internet software for email, file transfer, and more including an implementation of the Macintosh Internet Access Kit that works with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2002fall/11252002b.html
**Provost Appoints Committee to Examine U-M Response to Inappropriate Email
Provost Paul Courant has appointed a campus-wide committee to examine how the University responds to email messages that violate its policies for use of U-M computing resources. http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0102/Nov04_02/4.shtml
12. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES
Full minutes are available from Becki Spangler in the Dean's Office.
==November 19, 2002 Meeting
*Announcements/Updates
Cheri Simpson will replace Melis Michel as one of the three GSCO (Graduate Student Community Organization) representatives until elections in the spring.
The December 17th meeting will be mostly in executive session to discuss the Promotions and Tenure Committee's recommendations for the 4th year review candidates.
Jeff Mirel noted that nominations are being solicited for the Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Awards, with a deadline of December 2 in the Dean's Office.
*Campaign Case Statement
Dean Wixson asked the Committee to examine a draft campaign case statement. Campaign consultants are conducting a feasibility study to get feedback on the draft case statement, on the School’s campaign goal, and also to help cultivate prospective donors. The Committee indicated further discussion should take place at the completion of the feasibility study, but agreed that faculty participation in both giving and the campaign process are important factors in setting the culture for a successful campaign.
*Planning for December Faculty Meeting
The Committee noted the desire to continue discussions initiated at the faculty retreat and the need to explore the financial implications for some of these newly proposed ideas. It was agreed that further school-wide discussions would be most beneficial before individual programs got too far along in their planning, so the December faculty meeting will focus on further discussion of these issues. The December 10 Executive Committee meeting will be used as further preparation for the faculty meeting.
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